Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2010

The best way to learn is a “hands-on” approach like creating a simple business to sell lemonade or deliver newspapers. Several companies, like Charles Swaab, offer programs like Money Matters: Make it Count , which teaches the financial basics to teens through Boys & Girls Clubs across the country. Start a summer business.

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Entrepreneur Commerce Blogging Training 87

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

As John Greathouse noted in his blog entry, Putting “Trade” Back Into Tradeshows , several years ago, I pulled off a guerilla marketing coup at a large tradeshow by hiring actors to portray monks. The final point was essential, since our contract stated, “ you may not promote your company anywhere outside of your booth on the property.”

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Similar to the entrepreneurial attributes described in The Lemonade Principle , a newspaper route not only built character, it prepared children for a lifetime of success. He is also the author of an award-winning entrepreneurial blog infoChachkie.com. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Xconomy

JULY 10, 2019

More than a third of the companies that went public in the first half of this year were backed by venture capital. That, plus robust merger and acquisition activity, set a record for venture-backed exit value—$165.2

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

You are forty, out of a job, a newlywed, your wife is expecting a baby, you don’t own your own home, you have no specialized qualifications, the only company you ever launched went bankrupt and you have just been sentenced to one year in jail.”. He is also the author of an award-winning entrepreneurial blog infoChachkie.com.

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